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ABSTRACT STYLE

Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.

Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.

Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.

Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.

Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.

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Style: Abstract
KAWS MONSTER (KAWS Companion)
KAWS MONSTER (KAWS Companion)

KAWS MONSTER (KAWS Companion)

By KAWS

Located in NEW YORK, NY

KAWS Monster: A highly collectible & super decorative KAWS art toy, featuring the artist’s rendition of the famed cereal character Frute Brute. A playful exploration of KAWS’s love for these timeless pop cultural characters featuring his signature motifs. New / never displayed; accompanied by full original packaging. Medium: Vinyl art toy. Approximately: 11.4 × 6.3 inches. New in original packaging. Published by the artist from a sold out edition of unknown. Further background: “Inspired by classic horror film characters, the Monster Cereals...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Set of 10 Framed Rorschach Ink Tables, Abstract Prints, Excellent
Set of 10 Framed Rorschach Ink Tables, Abstract Prints, Excellent

Set of 10 Framed Rorschach Ink Tables, Abstract Prints, Excellent

By Rorschach

Located in Slovak Republic, SK

Ten Rorschach tables, framed in high quality black frames under art glass. Could be purchased as one item all 10/or individually per pieces's. Price is different for the item 10 piec...

Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Paper

Júlia Martins Miranda – Contemporary Tropical Flora Painting, Oil on Canvas 2026
Júlia Martins Miranda – Contemporary Tropical Flora Painting, Oil on Canvas 2026

Júlia Martins Miranda – Contemporary Tropical Flora Painting, Oil on Canvas 2026

By Julia Martins Miranda

Located in Barcelona, Barcelona

This work is presented in a scroll-like (parchment-style) format, with the painting executed on a flexible support and suspended using metal rods at the top and bottom, allowing the ...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Peter Busa
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Peter Busa

Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Peter Busa

By Peter Busa

Located in Surfside, FL

Peter Busa, American (1914 - 1985) Oil on Panel Abstract Composition Hand signed Lower Right. Dimensions: Measures 23-1/4" x 19-1/4". Frame measures 30-3/4" x 26-1/2" Peter Busa...

Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Water's Edge, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Water's Edge, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Water's Edge, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Located in Yardley, PA

Acrylic Abstract Painting on a gallery wrapped canvas. Wired and ready to hang. Painting continued onto sides. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certific...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

To Celebrate Childhood - Entally, Yellow Light
To Celebrate Childhood - Entally, Yellow Light

To Celebrate Childhood - Entally, Yellow Light

By Michael Forster 1

Located in New York, NY

An entrancing work about the artists childhood trip to Entally, India! A master abstractionist having spent years in Mexico with famous artists such as Rufino Tamayo - this artist had a way of presenting feelings through color and revertive brushwork. Here his childhood memory is colored in yellow - a color which speaks of his warm and rich experience which remained etched in a vivid way in his mind even in later years. He had a technique of sponging over and over dabs of paint and thru sponging could create rhythmic dots that pulsate and make his canvases glow and feel alive. He did a series of work called "To Celebrate a Childhood" and this one has a curious draw to it. It is complimented by a high quality silvered leaf frame that allows the yellow to function and glow. It measures 27 x 35 inches inside the frame and is signed with the artists cache on the back along with the estates inventory #. This work as one can see from our in-situ photo - enlivens a room and brings a positivity and welcoming aspect to a room. Would be great too with wood tones or just about any interior as yellow is a color to punctuate with yet there is a lot of detail within this canvas that draws a viewer in to take a closer look! Its provenance is estate of the artist to Messums Gallery in London. To Celebrate A Childhood-Entally, 1985 another of Michael Forster...

Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Holy Split I Mixed Media Original Painting on Canvas, Abstract Landscape, 2026
Holy Split I Mixed Media Original Painting on Canvas, Abstract Landscape, 2026

Holy Split I Mixed Media Original Painting on Canvas, Abstract Landscape, 2026

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

HOLY SPLIT I 2026 Paris, France HOLY SPLIT I is an ethereal mixed medium painting on canvas depicting a surreal dreamlike rift in a serene landscape. Abstract fuchsia forms suggesti...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Pencil

Black fish on a gold background.
Black fish on a gold background.

Black fish on a gold background.

By Svetlana Saratova

Located in Zofingen, AG

The work is executed in stencil technique using black paint on a gold acrylic background. The metallic gold surface creates a soft shimmer and enhances the contrast with the graphic ...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Inner Circle
The Inner Circle

The Inner Circle

Located in Zofingen, AG

Size: 97×120 cm (overall size with stretching 107×130 cm) Year: 2026 Materials: acrylic on canvas Shipping: rolled the series "The Inviolable Reserve" "The Inner Circle" (The Invio...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Notre Dame de Paris
Notre Dame de Paris

Notre Dame de Paris

By Claude Venard

Located in Boca Raton, FL

Claude Venard was a French a French post-Cubist and still life painter and was born in Burgundy in 1913. At the age of 17 he began to take evening classes in painting at the Ecole de...

Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Dawn, " Limited Edition Giclee Print, 48" x 48"
"Dawn, " Limited Edition Giclee Print, 48" x 48"

"Dawn, " Limited Edition Giclee Print, 48" x 48"

By Elwood Howell

Located in Westport, CT

This abstract, limited edition print by Elwood Howell features a predominantly green palette, with a muted yellow area at the top of the composition. Subtle circle shapes and long ve...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Digital, Giclée

Sea Foam 11, Abstract Painting
Sea Foam 11, Abstract Painting

Sea Foam 11, Abstract Painting

By DL Watson

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
An abstract seascape painting evokes the motion of ocean waves through layered blues and turquoises. Organic patterns suggest shifting currents and foam. Subtle...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

P2, F31, I2, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
P2, F31, I2, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers

P2, F31, I2, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers

By Josef Albers

Located in Long Island City, NY

From the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 original silkscreens that are a definitive survey of the artist...

Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

Good Vibrations - Figurative Abstract Ocean Surfers Still Life Acrylic Painting
Good Vibrations - Figurative Abstract Ocean Surfers Still Life Acrylic Painting

Good Vibrations - Figurative Abstract Ocean Surfers Still Life Acrylic Painting

By Kathleen Keifer

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Kathleen Keifer's original artworks represent one of the most significant expressions of New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her colorful scenes of everyday ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Flourish Now! Large Abstract Floral Painting, Acrylic Oil Pastel, 101x76 cm
Flourish Now! Large Abstract Floral Painting, Acrylic Oil Pastel, 101x76 cm

Flourish Now! Large Abstract Floral Painting, Acrylic Oil Pastel, 101x76 cm

By Karnish Art

Located in Pretoria, Gauteng

Title: Flourish Now! Painting Floral Abstract Bold Freedom Contrast Statement Maximalism In this painting, I expressed the feeling of aliveness into vibrant pink blossoms bursting...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Basket Series, Dale Chihuly
Basket Series, Dale Chihuly

Basket Series, Dale Chihuly

By Dale Chihuly

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Dale Chihuly (1941) Title: Basket Series Year: 2001 Medium: Acrylic on Arches Aquarelle Rag paper Size: 42 x 30 inches Inscription: Signed by the artist Notes: Hand painted b...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Bold Contemporary - Abstract Painting, Colorful Texture, Large, Dream
Bold Contemporary - Abstract Painting, Colorful Texture, Large, Dream

Bold Contemporary - Abstract Painting, Colorful Texture, Large, Dream

By Karnish Art

Located in Pretoria, Gauteng

Title: Interconnected Dream Bold Abstract Contemporary Colorful Masculine Investment Red Yellow Grey Blue Orange Texture Detail This series expresses our unity and our interconnect...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil, Gesso, Canvas, Stretcher Bars

Untitled Composition (Poligrafa, Redfern, Portuguese Modern Art, École de Paris)
Untitled Composition (Poligrafa, Redfern, Portuguese Modern Art, École de Paris)

Untitled Composition (Poligrafa, Redfern, Portuguese Modern Art, École de Paris)

By Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Located in Kansas City, MO

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Untitled Composition from "Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona at Redfern Gallery, London" Original Color Lithograph Year: 1979 Edition: 1000 Size: 10 x 7.32...

Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Nude show"
"Nude show"

"Nude show"

Located in Edinburgh, GB

A composition titled Nude Show unfolds across a deep brown background, where the warmth of the surface grounds the visual tension. Female figures emerge not as literal bodies, but as...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Red, Black and Blue Abstract Expressionism
Red, Black and Blue Abstract Expressionism

Red, Black and Blue Abstract Expressionism

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Gorgeous abstract expressionist painting by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957), circa 1977. Can be installed either vertically or horizontally. Unsigned. Purchased as ...

Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Wood

Gerhard Richter -Abstract Picture one plate artist authorized print on GardaMatt

Gerhard Richter -Abstract Picture one plate artist authorized print on GardaMatt

By Gerhard Richter

Located in New York, NY

Gerhard Richter Untitled Abstract Picture, 2002 Offset lithograph on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper (reproduction) Limited Edition edition of 3433 12 1/2 × 16 3.5 inches Unframed Printed on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper, this beautiful and colorful piece was part of a portfolio of loose plate reproductions for Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes works. Released during his exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art (Abstract Pictures) and the Museum of Modern Art (Gerhard Richter, 40 Years of Painting). It depicts Richters Oil on Aluminum abstract picture) More about Gerhard Richter: Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Throughout his career, Richter has negotiated the frontier between photography and painting, captivated by the way in which these two seemingly opposing practices speak to and challenge one another. From exuberant canvases rendered with a squeegee and acerbic color charts to paintings of photographic detail and close-ups of a single brushstroke, Richter moves effortlessly between the two mediums, reveling in the complexity of their relationship, while never asserting one above the other. Richter’s life traces the defining moments of twentieth-century history and his work reverberates with the trauma of National Socialism and the Holocaust. In the wake of the Second World War, Richter trained in a Socialist Realist style sanctioned by East Germany’s Communist government. When he defected to West Germany in 1961, a month before the Berlin Wall was erected, Richter left his entire artistic oeuvre up to that point behind. From 1961 to 1964—alongside Blinky Palermo and Sigmar Polke—Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he began to explore the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting without ideological restraint. Richter’s earliest paintings in Düsseldorf, stimulated by a fascination with current affairs and popular culture, responded to images from magazines and newspaper cuttings. Through the 1960s, Richter continued to address found and media images of subjects such as military jets, portraits, and aerial photographs. Notably, he reimagined family pictures he had smuggled from East Germany that included his smiling uncle Rudi, dressed in a Nazi uniform...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

(r)evolution 31 (Abstract painting)
(r)evolution 31 (Abstract painting)

(r)evolution 31 (Abstract painting)

By Tracey Adams

Located in London, GB

(r)evolution 31 (Abstract painting) Pigmented Beeswax, Oil & Collage on Panel. Unframed. This painting is part of a series titled (r)evolution which started in 2014. This process...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Wax, Oil, Wood Panel, Pigment

Vintage Koi Abstract Original Painting
Vintage Koi Abstract Original Painting

Vintage Koi Abstract Original Painting

Located in Soquel, CA

Evocative and dramatic acrylic painting of abstracted Koi fish titled "Symbiosis" that's a masterful blend of motion and objects. Circa 1980. Unframed, by Chaquille (American, 20th c...

Category

1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Sumit Mehndiratta, Giorgio Lo Fermo, Francisco Nicolás, and Dadodu . Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Synthetic Resin Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract art, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.